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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 186 points 9 months ago (37 children)

Alternate Headline: Fascist Regime Attempts To Intimidate Federal Judges By Arresting And Releasing One

Fascism is here friends. Arm yourselves. Help arm others. Train. Help train others.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 70 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Dugan is accused of escorting the man and his lawyer out of her courtroom through the jury door last week after learning that immigration authorities were seeking his arrest.

Lady: You've got bailiffs. You've got the entire damn police force and courthouse staff at your disposal. Send the defendant into your quarters and tell him to lock the door, wait for ICE to come in the courtroom, raise your voice tell them to leave your courtroom, find them in contempt when they don't, and send them for three days. Tell the court staff to grab them. If they fight back, fuck it, game on, sounds good.

I'm glad she's trying to protect the rights of her defendant, and the agents who "arrested" her should clearly be in prison. She did good, no mistake. But I think she has a lot more leverage than she was acting with if she wants to decide to protect defendants. Trying to be sneaky about it is just going to feed into their narrative. There's a reason they cover their faces and try to snatch people quick and get out of the area. They know they're vulnerable. Feed into that.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Her bailiffs and police force are almost 100% on the side of ICE.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 22 points 9 months ago

Maybe. Maybe not. A lot of cops aren't happy about Trump pardoning everyone for assaulting the Capitol police, and violating everything they've been trained on how they need to do things in terms of "arresting" immigrants using ICE. She's in Wisconsin, so maybe you're right, but I still feel like her directly upholding the law using the position she has to tell bailiffs what to do would have been a better play. If they want to ignore direct orders from a judge, at least let's get that out there, and then we can figure out what to do at that point.

The truth is I'm just doing armchair analysis when I have no idea of the situation. That's how I see it though.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think it's more that they don't know what the fuck to do in this unprecedented situation and just defaulted to submitting to the "higher" authority.

At the end of the day, they were probably just thinking of themselves and not wanting to be arrested.

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago

let me fucking do it then

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not just a judge. An elected judge.

[–] ModestCrab@lemmy.wtf 22 points 9 months ago

MAGA: so a stolen election judge you say?

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago

The MAGAt clown show continues.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Time to arrest the judge that released the judge that was arrested for shielding the immigrant awaiting trial from summary deportation.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

It's judge arrests all the way down!

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Releasing her doesn't matter, the message has already been sent, the intention is clear. To intimidate those that would defy their fascist operations. To silence critics that fear retribution. To say for all to hear, "if we can do this to a judge, imagine what we can do to you."